one! >> huh? >> where do i sign up? sorry, i can't concentrate but i have to do the headlines. let's kick it off, shall we? last night, the supreme court stopped the execution of a man in texas at the very last minute, dwayne buck was set to be executed for murdering his former girlfriend and her friend 16 years ago. he was actually waiting in a holding cell right next to the death chamber when he heard the news. his lawyers claim racially charged testimony from a psychologist led to an unfair sentence. they're asking now for a new sentencing trial. a shocking turn in the search for susan powell. the police are back tracking that they found remains that could have been hers. they admit they jumped the gun. that site hasn't turned up anything just yet. police will continue to excavate that site this morning. update you now about that deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe. colorado woman suing the farm that distributed the fruit claiming it nearly killed her

husband. she's also suing wal-mart where she bought the cantaloupe. >> it's horrible! it's scary. i don't think he'll ever be able to drive again because of the confusion. >> the rocky ford company stopped shipping its cantaloupes to nearly 20 states. if you have one, of course, you're told to throw it out. you've seen the amazing video all week long. remember that biker pinned under a burning car and pulled him out in the nick of time. now he's talking about his brush with death for the first time. >> i wanted to thank all the heroes that put their lives on the line to save mine. when i was under the car, it was completely surreal. i was just like how did i even fit under here? and i just thought i was going to be paralyzed. at best. i should have died when i hit the pavement. i should have died when i hit the car. i should have died when the car

burst into flames. but i didn't! for some reason. and i mean, that just makes life that much more precious to me. >> wow. brandon wright has broken bones and burns. he's looking forward, though, to riding again but now, guess what, he's going to wear a helmet from now on and those are your headlines. how about not -- well, it's up to him whether he wants to ride a bike. maybe i wouldn't. >> it's tough. motorcycles are dangerous to begin with. people want to take the risk. the solyndra scandal is just about done. let's move on to another topic. >> back to patdowns. cool. all right! >> this is unbelievable how bad this is getting and the forensics that they're reconstructing the demise of this solar panel company to find out how a company could be eligible for $537 million in 2009, lose it all, go bankrupt in 2011 and as you read these e-mails, it's pretty clear the white house had plenty of red flags.

>> can i just throw this out here? this is 2009. the white house knew that giving them $535 million, they would have to make it or break it by september of 2011. guess what happened? they ran out of money exactly when the white house knew they were going to. the problem is when you play around with a company that burns through cash that fast, you really are playing venture capitalist which, by the way is at best maybe 1 in 5 or 6 companies make it with our money. they're gambling with our money. they're taking massive risks. that's not what the business of the white house is supposed to be. >> it's not. this was the model company for their energy plan. they needed it to work. >> you know why that's a problem? because steven chu sits atop the department of energy and this is a man who has absolutely no idea what he's doing. this man is lost in the job. >> the federal watchdog group two separate times said the energy department has not developed controls needed to manage the multibillion dollar loan program.

not just the ones at solyndra but they said that we have no idea where this company is going. three separate times, the white house ignored these warnings and sent the president out there to hail its use. >> apparently not internally and now somebody wants the world to know what was going on behind the scenes because they continue to release these e-mails from inside the department of -- the office of management and budget and the white house so this now is between an official from the omb. between two officials there. the optics of a solyndra default will be bad, the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up. now, is the omb supposed to be a bipartisan group or are the people there appointed by the president? do we know? they're appointed by the president. >> that's an appointment, right. the cbo is bipartisan. the other part of the problem is that they pushed this loan out the door. they expedite it, they got it out the door. mr. obama went to the plant.

said this is what the future of solar is going to look like. if the future of solar looks like 1100 people out of work right now and half a billion dollars of americans taxpayer money down the drain, isn't looking so good. >> the f.b.i. raid they say, the reason it took place last week is because solyndra, they want to find out if solyndra was lying to the government about the solvency of their company. >> before they got the loan. >> before they got the loan and even while they were supposedly expending the loan and expending their company. that's what henry waxman bought up a couple of days ago, let's blame the company for lying to the government and it's not our fault they lied. the f.b.i. seems to be going after that. the other thing is they're looking at the 15 separate loans for a total of $6 billion worth of stimulus money to see if those green dollars went down the toilet as well. >> yep. so i was almost a math major but i'm going to let eric handle the numbers. >> all right. there are $38.6 billion in this

fund alone. there's another fund, i want to talk about the other fund in the next hour maybe but in this fund alone $38.6 billion that is available for these green energy loans to get the jobs going. turns out they've created about 3,545 jobs or so. $20 billion went out the door. so if you take $20 billion that they've loaned out, they've created 3500 and some odd jobs, that comes to $5 million per job. >> so wait a second, 40 different projects. all that money. and the government says, these numbers, 3,445 permanent jobs. you know what they've come back with and said has the administration, well, wait a second, you're not counting the 33,000 jobs we saved at ford by giving them $6 billion in loans to upgrade their -- this is such a stretch. to upgrade their plants in five states, to build more energy efficient vehicles. i'm like wait a second. this is the dog ate my homework! >> right, but that goes back to, remember when the phrase

started coming out, save jobs so now when you look at how they're phrasing it, it's created or saved jobs which many people have spent the last years trying to figure out what a saved job is. >> in february of 2009, joe biden went for the plan, said these are the kind of jobs, these are the permanent jobs that we're going to create with these loans and here we are, two years later, a little over two years later, those 1100 jobs are gone. >> let's look at some other companies that potentially got the stimulus money and have since gone bankrupt. it includes two other green companies. evergreen solar inc. indirectly received $5.3 million through a state grant. inspector watt out of hopewell junction, new york, also now no longer in business and two other companies so this is part of the $800 billion in original stimulus money. >> unbelievable. it's important to noted that evergreen solar was one of the premiere solar companies in the world! i mean, this was a company that everyone -- i'm not sure where they're based. >> it doesn't say.

they blame it on their -- >> everything is going to china. we knew that was happening. you know, we do a lot of this stuff on the business network. we saw it. china was kicking our butt in solar and frankly, we were saying don't invest in these companies because you really risk china undercutting you on price. and that's exactly what happened. >> if i was to headline these two talking points we just went over, it's this. two years ago, our economy was flat on its back. the president said he was going to do whatever he can to start our -- to get our economy back on the right foot. instead of doing that directly, he factored in his agenda. instead of doing the things that are going to stand us up economically, when things started humming along, he said i have a great idea. rahm emanuel probably led this. let's get the green thing going and at the same time take that $850 billion in stimulus money and get our agenda going along with economic healing. >> now it could get more problematic because now you have a top level general, general william shelton announcing now that he may have been pressured

to change his testimony over a white house project. now, he used to be the head of the air force space command and he was going to give testimony about a virginia-based satellite company called light squared. now, apparently, i don't want to get too technical on this. what they wanted to do was come up with a 4g phone network that was going to, you know, surpass any technology we've seen in the world. well, members of the military were concerned that that might affect their gps systems so general shelton was apparently going to go and testify to that. and then he told a closed house committee that in a classified briefing, that he was pressured to change that testimony. now, we don't know who pressured him to do that. we don't know if it was the white house. we don't know if it was the department of defense or the office of management and budget but now that story is starting to percolate. >> they said it's even worse. they said if you want to know what this company was doing, it's like trying to hear a phone conversation in a loud rock concert. and they wanted the general to say this is a solvable part of the 4g network that we're

subscribing to, don't worry about it. it will get on track. the general goes i don't feel that way. i don't think it's going to work. lives are probably going to be on the line. it's factored in the gps. the system factors into the laser bombs. >> apparently this 4g system was so powerful, it would almost eliminate any usefulness of the gps system to the military so they'd have to revamp probably costing us, you know, tens of billions of dollars to fix our own gps system to compete with the airwaves with this light -- what is it, light square ed? >> back to my favorite story of the day, patdowns, the nfl wants to implement the full body patdowns now at stadiums and a lot of people are going to say, oh, my gosh, we'll have to go to the game so much earlier and it will take much more longer to get into the game. thanks to the very few hoodlums at the games that ruin it to everybody. we saw it at opening game last week, the guy with the laser gun, stun gun, whatever it was. thank you very much, you've ruined it for all the family

friendly people who want to go to the game and have a good time. now everybody has to stand in line to get a patdown. >> look, you got to do it. i don't think the nfl has a choice. >> they don't. it's because of a very few. >> right. well, yeah. you have a stun gun and you bring it to the game. and we know about the incident between the marine and the fan who said i'm not going to stand up for the national anthem and this guy ends up whipping out a stun gun. what are they doing? i thought you were being patted down. if you had a gun in your pocket, you would not be able to get into the game anyway. >> wouldn't it be easier to put the metal detectors up? by the way, one guy tried to light his shoe on fire about nine years ago and we had -- billions of people have had to take their shoes off. one guy can ruin it. wouldn't it be easier to walk through a metal detector and if something -- >> you already do at the baseball game. >> they have a wand, right? don't they wand you at yankee stadium? they wand you. here if you walk through if you're holding a gun or a taser, you get pulled aside. >> one i'm outraged is they make

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>> all right, if you think mortgage rates couldn't get any lower, guess again. fixed rate mortgages slid to a 60 year low this week amid growing debt concerns in europe. >> if you're looking to take advantage of that good news, there's one problem, unfortunately, banks still are not lending. stuart varney says that's because they are terrified of regulators. is that true? >> yes, it is true. the regulators are all over the banks big and small saying don't you go out there taking real estate risk. so getting a loan is very, very difficult which is most unfortunate because you just pointed it out. mortgage rates are at, what, 60-year lows and i think they're going to go lower still. 4.09%, the average now on 30-year fixed rate loans. i mean, i've been in america 40 years. i've never seen that before and it's going lower. >> devil's advocate here, isn't giving out loans people who maybe were not credit worthy how we got into this mess arguably? >> that is true. that is absolutely correct.

>> you understand the apprehension of some of the banks. >> i certainly do and they've got the regulators breathing down their next saying don't you take risks like that anymore. that's why it's very difficult to get a loan. look, if you have good credit, a very good credit score, let's say 700, for example, you've got a job, you've got money and you've got a 20% downpayment, you'll probably get a loan. that's not many people. unfortunately, the people who really need these lower rates can't get a loan because they got no equity left in their home, they haven't got a regular job. they've got a poor credit score or something is wrong with that loan and they can't get that rate. it's terrible! >> from your best assessment, have we overcorrected? >> overcorrectein what sense? >> overcorrected with the regulations. first, there was absolutely no regulations. now, i'm seeing -- you seem to think there's maybe too much regulation. >> i don't like dodd frank. that's the name of the financial -- >> does anybody? >> reform act.

dodd and frank do. >> one's out and one should be. >> at a time like this to impose dodd frank on the financial system of the united states is very, very bad timing. you've imposed a layer of bureaucracy and cost on the entire financial system at a lousy time. >> you know who agrees with you? jamie diamond, a confidant of president obama. i wish he would call him directly. >> ceo of j.p. morgan chase. >> watch out, 3.5% 30 year fixed rate loans are around the corner. i think it will happen. >> wow. >> you mean with a loan shark or actual well a bank? >> loan sharks don't charge 3 1/2%, believe me, young man. >> we'll be watching your show coming up at 9:20 eastern time. have a great day. still ahead, you've heard plenty of democrats blaming president obama for today's problems. here's a new one. a democrat blaming president obama for his problems? we'll tell you who. >> then the number of priests falling in the united states, does that mean catholics are

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>> glad you're up. it's friday. let me tell you two stories. first, let's go up top, up here to the big board. that's footage, yes it's true, timothy geithner is in poland meeting with his european counterparts to discuss the debt crisis in english. the two day meeting comes ahead of the imf and g-20 meetings later this month. let's go over here. i'm going to turn is way. you'll see the postal service. this is generic video. let me show you something that's brand new. they are going to slow down

first class delivery and in fact, stop overnight delivery. we'll have two or three days to get our mail that we need right away and also they're going to cut back on saturday openings, perhaps, they could save about $3 billion but would eliminate 35,000 jobs so when in doubt slow down your service, make it less attractive. i'm going to go upstairs and watch this next interview. it's going to be great. i think it features eric bolling. >> all right, brian, snail mail becomes slug mail. the number of priests in the united states is falling but don't worry, that doesn't mean americans are losing their interest or faith in god. in fact, a new book reveals that church life is on the rise and more catholics are indeed serving god in their own unique ways. joining us is the author of "living the call, an introduction to the location." let's get this out of the way first. why are we losing 30,000 priests over the last maybe few decades? >> well, eric, you know,

there's a lot of factors and sociologists estimate that there's any number of different reasons ranging from the increasing secularization of society and smaller families. 30 to 40 years ago, many catholic families had 7, 10 children. i'm one of seven kids as a matter of fact and usually one or two went into the priesthood or became nuns and now, of course, families are smaller. >> the book is not about that. the book is about a calling. you had a calling. tell us about your calling. >> well, it wasn't something like a thunderbolt, eric. it's a call to be more involved with the church. the more i became involved with our church out in california, the more i realized there were exciting and wonderful opportunities to get involved. almost whatever you like to do, there's something that you can do within the catholic church. >> i was reading, bill, you said after some material success, you started to hear it, you started to feel it. >> i definitely felt it. absolutely. and it's something that grows

within you over time. in the beginning when i was younger, i was a little bit almost embarrassed, i didn't want to admit that, you know, i wanted to be more active in the church. you know, people that i hung around, business people, politicians, you know, they were on the go. and this is what i'm up to. but, you know, i thought boy, maybe there's a little bit more to life. >> what did you do? pele are watching and say i kind of hear that, i feel it a little bit. how did they get involved? what's the first step? >> a good first step is to start going back to church and get involved with the people that are in the pews with you and maybe get to know your pastor. i got to know my pastor in santa monica. he's a great guy and so i said to him, how can i get more involved? and i became more involved with some particular ministries in our church. and, you know, there's areas, there's education now. 97% of teachers in catholic schools are laypeople now. hospitals, there's plenty of opportunities outside the parish, there's plenty of opportunities. inside the parish. i mean, eric, you won't believe.

there's been an explosion of laypeople involved in the catholic church. it's wonderful to see in this age when there's so much negativity about the catholic church. >> win, win, right? it's fulfilling to you and filling a need within the catholic church. >> absolutely. a win-win. >> all right. thank you so much. >> thank you, eric. my pleasure. >> all right, russia, we have a problem. russia loses contact with an american astronaut in space. is the united states to blame because we gave up our space program? and gives a whole new meaning to playing sick. medical schools across the country using actors to help train their students. courtney friel got a fascinating first hand look but first, happy birthday to marc anthony. the singer turns 43 today. ♪ [ female announcer ] erybody loves that cushiony feeling.

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>> this new york thing was a real wake-up call. latest polls shows that the president's numbers are slipping in the jewish community. but you know, i think he's trying too hard to get the jewish vote. you see what he did today? take a look. >> i want to also acknowledge somebody who i rely on day in,

day out, one of my dearest friends, joe biden is in the house! >> ok. >> so that's obviously an over the top vote of how the president needs the jewish vote and he's lost it. >> listen to this, 4 in 10 american jews say they disapprove of this president's performance as president. >> yeah. the jewish vote right now and david weprin, i guess he blames obama. >> there was this race the other day, this special election we were telling you about in new york's ninth district, that was congressman anthony weiner's seat. i think he had seven terms there. a republican has not won that seat for more than 80 years and you had bob turner win pretty handily over this david weprin who he comes from a family of political strength here in new york. now, david weprin actually coming out and blaming not bush but president obama. here's what he said. the election turned into a

referendum of the president and i was an unfortunate consequence. if this election happened when the president's poll results were better, i could have turned this around. >> here's the problem with his theory, he actually ran against the president. he would not even come out and say i am for the president's re-election. number one. and number two is anybody accountable for anything anymore? can anyone say, wow, i lost? first, he didn't want to admit defeat. after he was trailing by seven points, he's like well, we want a recount. really? you're not even close and number two, he's got to be embarrassed. you have democrats outnumbering republicans 3-1 and you lost by eight points! >> yeah, but the flip side of that, though, brian is nobody at the white house or debbie wasserman schultz who is the head of the dnc would say it was a referendum on obama so he's the only person who is actually igniting that from his own party. >> that's so important. >> thank you. >> and you're 100% right. debbie wasserman schultz came out the next morning and said by the way, that's always been a tough district.

really? you've had it for 88 years! when did it get tough? it's a referendum on obama and you see more and more democrats going, mr. obama, maybe you want to go to that other district over there before the 2012 elections. i really want to try and win this one. >> i thought this was the era of accountability where we're going to go through budgets line by line and make sure people are accountable for their actions. now you have the president of the united states blaming the tsunami, european economic crisis for our woes. when people lose, they're blaming the president for their woes. when the president is not happy, he blames president bush. what's going on here? let's go to something simple, like the war on terror. top al-qaida operative killed by a c.i.a. drone strike in pakistan. this is the guy. he was said to be the terror group's chief operations -- chief operations officer in that country and he worked closely with usama bin laden and with the pakistani taliban. his job was to inflict pain on american forces. he's dead. >> a special honor for one

military hero. >> today, we pay tribute to an american who put himself in the thick of the fight again and again and again. in so doing, he has earned our nation's highest military declaration, medal of honor. >> president obama placed the medal of honor around marine dakota meyer's neck yesterday. meyer defied orders and went into a killing zone in afghanistan back in 2009 to save 36 lives, both american and afghan troops. meyer also killed at least eight insurgents who had ambushed the troops. >> and the teenager tells police in sante fe, new mexico, that he's robby romero, a boy who disappeared 11 years ago at the age of 7. his d.n.a. is being tested to see if he is that missing boy. he reportedly told police he's been living in a state near new mexico but he wouldn't say who abducted him while he was walking home from a friend awes

hose. -- friend's house. >> a close call for shoppers inside a bike shop. watch. as a woman almost -- as a woman on crutches and a man barely make it out of the way. as that car crashes through the store window. good thing it went down the aisle. the 85-year-old woman driving the car said she mistakenly stepped on the gas instead of the brake. they have to label those things when pull into the handicapped parking spot. it finally stopped after hitting the back wall. three suffered minor injuries. oh, my gosh. >> gives a whole new meaning to playing hooky. medical schools across the country using actors now to help train their students to act sick. >> this is not true. >> i got to see this. courtney friel is here to explain. what is this? >> happy friday, everybody. >> yeah. >> almost every medical school in the country has some sort of program that uses people faking ailments to help prepare med students for the real world but the new york city and los

angeles programs are more unique in that they have the privilege of working with professional actors. >> they are off broadway actors but today, they're standardized patients playing sick. >> i'm having a cocaine induced heart attack. >> stomach pain, it's actually pancreatitis. >> all fourth year students test their clinical skills in this simulation program. it's a safe practice environment offering real life doctor-patient interaction, much different from textbooks or the classroom setting. >> you say you're really flying solo. usually in medical school, you're doing everything with a team and so you always have someone to back you up if you're not sure about something. >> what you read in the book is always so different from how someone presents to you in real life. it feels like you're in a real patient encounter. it's that stressful. >> the sessions are videotaped so there's instant feedback from the faculty. >> we're observing to see how

students interact with patients. what are they asking in terms of the history questions? what are they doing on physical exam? we just want to make sure that our students are taking the right approach to the patient overall. >> the actors also get to grade these med students who are often nervous. >> i feel for them. i just try to carry on and do the case. >> we're rooting for them but sometimes they miss it. >> better here than in the real world. plus acting sick isn't so bad. >> it sure beats, you know, waiting tables and, you know, driving a cab and tending bar. >> the actors at cornell make $25 an hour and many of them have been doing the same case for years. they say this job has helped them become more aware at the real doctor's office and by the way, the staff at cornell is always looking for more standardized patients to add to the rotation. so if you know anyone who does a really good sneeze or a cough, tweet me. i can hook you up. >> i have so much respect for people who want to be actors. those are the same ones that work at that diner.

>> stardust diner. and they want to sing, they can't get a gig so they'll wait on tables and sing at the same time. i love this! >> they can still practice their craft. >> right. >> thank you very much for bringing that to us. >> have a great weekend, everybody. good to see you. >> and i'll borrow your earrings sometime, too. they're very pretty. >> if an armed robber holds you at gun point while at work, do you have a right to defend yourself? guess what? you don't. jud the judge explains coming up next. >> should america really hand over our program to that nation?

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>> 42 minutes after the top of the hour. couple of quick headlines for you. a russian space capsule landed safely in kazakhstan this morning but not without rattling a few nerves first. the astronauts who were returning from the international space station reportedly lost contact with mission control for several nerve racking minutes. no day at the beach in ocean city, maryland. check out the video as the water spout forms in the ocean and starts moving towards shore. it damaged some cars and buildings after hitting land. there you have it. let's go over to brian and the judge. >> all right! heard that before. >> yes. that sounds familiar. >> it's friday. and we're dipping into the freedom files this morning. this week, no good deed goes unpunished especially if you're a man in california who was slapped with a ticket by police for helping with traffic after a

light went out at a major intersection. here with us is judge andrew napolitano. judge, this seems like a great thing. traffic is a mess. lights are out. a guy starts directly traffic. what happened? >> the police came and stopped him and gave him a ticket for pretending to be a policeman. he wasn't pretending to be a policeman. this is a traffic spot in pasadena, california, where the light goes out once a week. when it goes out, traffic backs up for a mile. it takes 45 to 60 minutes to come back. the guy on his own got out there and peacefully and appropriately directed traffic, detained and given a ticket for it. no good deed goes unpunished. >> you know what bothers me more, after they get rid of the guy and give him the ticket, they do not stick around and direct traffic so traffic continues, the good samaritan gets the ticket. where's the message here? >> the message is the government is not doing the right thing and you should not be punished for helping the government. in the same week that this happened, we all watched those people lift up that car, that burning car to get the guy out from underneath. did they give them a ticket when the police weren't there? of course not.

>> they should. illegally flipping a vehicle. >> there you go. >> let's talk about -- we're going -- >> new crime, by the way! >> you got to get up to date on your law. everything is changing, judge. wearing the robes. >> thank you. >> let's talk about jeremy hoven. he works at a walgreens and he was upset that walgreens was not concerned about his own safety so he went and got a permit to carry a gun. >> jeremy had a license to own the gun and a permit to carry the gun and he had it with him and the walgreens was robbed by three guys with guns and the three guys with guns were threatening to shoot the manager of the walgreens when jeremy took out his gun and pointed it at them. he didn't shoot it. and the three of them fled. they got caught. jeremy got fired. fired because walgreens will not let you use a gun to protect yourself even if you lawfully own it and can lawfully carry it. >> and these days what's happening with pharmacies and with addicts and prescription drugs, i would want two guns or i wouldn't even take the job. >> i agree with you, this is an interesting clash between

property rights, the owners of the drugstore, walgreens and personal rights, your ability to defend yourself, he is suing and a judge and a jury will decide which right prevails. >> i wonder where common sense comes in. >> there's no common sense in this case except for on jeremy's part. >> let's go to something else that you say you're having a trouble with. the automatic license plate recognition system gets nicked in brookline. >> i knew this is one we would disagree on. this is a project where the state of massachusetts says here's $20,000, put thesis cameras on the streets and take a picture of every license plate that goes by and send those picture to all law enforcement in massachusetts and the aldermen of brookline saying no, we don't want that. we don't think it's the government's business to take a picture of every car that goes by even if it helps us catch the bad guys. this is the rare instance of a government refusing money from another government in the instance of privacy. >> do you feel as though that's on the right path? that's the path that judge napolitano feels -- >> you know i'm worried about

big brother snooping everything we do. you and i have disagreed professionally sometimes a little crazily, this is an example where privacy prevailed. they actually turned down cash in the instance of privacy. >> i'm worried about mugsy opinion who could be in that community. >> mugsy is in massapequa. >> by the way, we have these things that take pictures of your license plate if you go through a yellow light. they take pictures and video of you going through a yellow light. even if you try to lie to them or say it was a yellow light, they have video of you going through that light. >> they have a picture of you throwing a football in your backyard? >> no, they don't. not that i know of. maybe google does. judge, thanks so much for coming in. >> my pleasure. what time will we be watching tonight? >> 8:00 tonight but you'll probably be watching the rerun at 11:00 because you'll be busy at 8:00. >> you know it's date night for me. >> many my sorry to your other

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>> ♪ faster than lightning ♪ know what you see >> we all remember flipper, of course, the dolphin who kept an eye and protected the family. but even flipper didn't demonstrate how intelligent dolphins really are. dolphins can actually recognize themselves in the mirror, apparently, proving that they possess self-awareness, something only seen in humans and apes. joining me is one of the scientists that discovered that and the author of the new book "the dolphin in the mirror" professor diana reese. so great to speak with you this morning. >> nice to be here, by the way, elephants also recognize themselves and so do magpies. >> really? >> yes. >> what is it about those species of animals that allows them to have that capability? >> well, we don't know exactly what it is except what we can

look at is the fact that they have large complex, they are highly social and great at problem solving and a variety of other skills but we don't know what that combination of things is exactly that leads dolphins, elephants and certain other animals to possess this ability that we hold quite dear to us. >> you have actually said that if dolphins had lips, they may be able to speak. is that true? >> no, what i said is that dolphins don't have lips but they communicate. all animals communicate but dolphins communicate in ways that we think is rather complex and we're trying to decode what they're doing. >> tell me about your mission now and mainly what you're trying to do in the book is uncover all of the research that we've done and inform people about how smart they are but also to save them. >> yes and that's my main message. my simple message is we need global protection for dolphins and whales. about 1% of the world's oceans are protected. in terms of protecting marine mammal species.

many species are in trouble. we have species of dolphins that are depleted. that means their numbers are reduced. we have animals, dolphins and whale species that are threatening or endangered and these animals are getting hit by stressors, they're being captured for aquariums in certain parts of the world. not in the united states but other parts of the world actually break up dolphin populations in the wild to bring them in to the dolphin program for aquariums and despite the fact that we haven't done that in the united states, many countries still do it and my focus has been on the dolphin drive in japan which were highlighted in the film, "the cove". >> which you had a part of. tell me about that. >> yes, so i've been trying with many of my colleagues to stop these dolphin tribes in japan. these are brutal hunts and unjustifiable killings of dolphins where animals are brought in to this cove, herded in from the wild in their social groups and then they are massacred in the most

unimaginable way. just ripped open alive. the methods have gotten even worse since the film came out. so we need to stop this now. >> so humans love to interact with the dolphins because they are so intelligent so when you bring your kids to these types of water parks where that's available, do you agree with that? >> i actually have strong feelings about this. let me say it very simply, no dolphins should be captured for marine parks, aquariums at all. we should not be capturing dolphins and we should stop killing them. clearly in these drives. as far as aquariums right now, i think the debate is what to do for the future. i don't think it's -- i don't think it's advisable to release dolphins that have been raised in captivity. i think that might be just -- i think it's just not the right thing to do. but i do think that we need to be responsible for those animals and really consider whether we're going to continue to breed dolphins. i would suggest maybe we stop breeding and let aquariums dwindle out. >> very interesting.

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>> you know when you have one of those days where you go tgif. that's me today and i hope it's you, too. september 16th. hey, everyone. i'm gretchen carlson. the solyndra scandal growing. new e-mails just released shows the white house knew the company could go belly up and they're worried how it would affect the president's re-election. the story keeps growing. >> democratic strategist james carville helped bill clinton get elected twice and he's tried to help president obama. remember this? > >> put somebody in charge of this thing and get this thing moving. we're about to die down here! >> now he has another dire message for the president. he says it's time to panic! >> they say size doesn't matter. gretchen disagrees but the mcdonned's happy meal make-over may leave a lot of kids with empty stomachs. we've got the proof. "fox & friends" starts right now. >> hi, this is chris ferguson,

the commander of the space shuttle atlantis, the very last space shuttle mission. you are watching "fox & friends." >> i'm glad we added a note of seriousness to the top of the show there because at the open of the 6:00 we talked about patdowns and now we're talking about size. >> in happy meals. >> xbl >> exactly. >> yeah. i have a feeling we'll disagree with this one. we'll see. last night the supreme court stopped the execution of a man in texas at the very last minute. dwayne buck was set to be executed for murdering his former girlfriend and her friend 16 years ago. he was actually waiting in a holding cell right next to the death chamber when he got word. the news sending tears of joy to many protest orsz gathered outside the prison. his lawyers claim racially charged testimony from a psychologist led to an unfair sentence. they're asking for a new sentencing trial. threatening video out of south wales, british rescue crews working desperately to reach three men trapped inside a flooded coal mine. a retaining wall collapsed

allowing water to come rushing in. it's believed they are trapped 300 feet underground. at least one other miner has died in that accident. here's the norweigian mass murderer minutes before he detonated a car bomb outside of the prime minister's office in july. this newly released photo shows him dressed in a police uniform and carrying a pistol. after this attack, he drove to a youth camp where he went on a mass shooting spree. 77 people died in both july 22nd attack. if you're looking for a good movie to see next month, who are you going to call? >> come in, ray. >> i saw it! i saw it! >> it's right here, ray. it's looking at me. >> ugly little spud, isn't he? >> i think he can hear you, ray. >> don't move! it won't hurt you! >> the original ghostbusters will reportedly be back in theaters just in time for halloween according it a post on the facebook page. full details haven't been

released yet. the re-release comes amid reports that filming on "ghostbusters 3" could be starting next year. >> there was a lot of unfinished business in one or two. maybe that's why i wanted to watch the whole movie. maybe we could watch it in the third hour. we did plan something different. one of the things we want to talk about is solyndra. this scandal is growing by the day. many people wonder what happened to the $850 billion that we put out two years ago that we didn't have that was supposed to prime the pump to get the economy back on its feet? much of that money went to green jobs programs and $537 million of that money went to a guaranteed government loan to solyndra. and it has since gone belly up, three separate investigations to find out where the money is and why 1100 people are out of a job. and we're beginning to rebuild forensically through e-mails what went wrong. >> it's interesting because somebody is releasing these

e-mails. somebody wants the story to be told. take a look at this january 31st e-mail out of the office of management and budget between two officials there. the optics of a solyndra default will be bad. the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up. so is this becoming more political now than we thought? i mean, were they going -- were they pulling out all the stops to make sure this company did not go belly up after receiving that much of taxpayer dollars and more importantly, did they potentially know that this company was already in trouble when they gave them that amount of -- >> even as -- >> go ahead. very quickly, you know, we have to be careful here. there's an investor whose name is george kaiser. he created a foundation, a charitable foundation, that foundation used another entity to buy stock in solyndra. ok? george kaiser also happens to be a major bundler for president obama during the 2008 elections cycle so the question is -- by the way, george kaiser and other officials from solyndra visited

the white house on several occasions, some say four times the week of the loan. some say up to 20 times during, you know, preceding the loan so the question is was the loan put in place to help george kaiser? i'm not speculating on it. i'm simply saying if there's ownership there, wouldn't that be a conflict of interest if one of your bundleers happened to own stock in a company that you were loaning $535 million to? >> what i find amazing is the president was scrambled out there to praise the company for hiring 1,000 people even though there were reports out that shows his company was not healthy. was not viable. when one report came in from a federal watchdog group that said, you know, this solyndra is going -- is having trouble and is not viable, the report from greg -- the retort from greg nelson who works in the energy department seems b.s. it seems like you were wrong. it wasn't b.s. you have 1100 people out of work. they are wondering did they lie to the government? did the government know how bad

it was and didn't pull the plug? >> can i proceed this story down the road a little bit further? two other high profile loans that came in 2009, we haven't talked about, nobody has talked about yet. number one, tesla motors got $465 million to develop an electric car. $500 million. where's the car? it's not out there. >> it's in santa monica in a showroom. >> and the other one, fisker motors, another one $500 million. here's a finnish company from finland. al gore invested in this company, too, and another $500 million loan. where's that? >> where's the car? >> we got -- >> i want our money back! >> when this solyndra story came to be, i was wondering if there was other companies like this that received stimulus cash that maybe now have gone under. guess what? they're starting to come out of the woodwork. here are two other companies that are energy companies that have since gone under after receiving stimulus cash.

evergreen solar inc. received $5.3 million and filed for bankruptcy protection last month. spectrawatt received $500,000 and filed for bankruptcy last month. another filed for protection in 2010 and olson's crop service and olson mills acquisition company received $10 million and filed for bankruptcy protection. first two are energy companies. >> isn't this incredible? this is the whole green jobs agenda that destroyed spain's economy. we thought it was a great idea. let's use the stimulus money that we didn't have. >> it's all about ideology here. >> which is so wrong! >> therein lies the problem. it's about ideology. it's not about actually making investment in a company that's going to create a permanent job. clearly these 1100 jobs weren't permanent. where are we going? we have to wait, this technology will be in place some day but don't risk, especially with the financial condition that the country is in. don't risk our money speculating on whether solar is ready for primetime. it's not ready yet! >> it's amazing. basically our economy was in an

ambulance heading to the hospital and when they opened up the door, instead of getting right to the hospital, they stopped along the way and went to a drive through and they went ahead and bought whatever they got and now we have a situation where the president is asking for $427 billion more after what happened to the last $850 billion. the audacity of that request is beyond comprehension. >> well, especially when the solyndra stuff has come to be in this past week. he asked for it last thursday. so let's see what happens with that. a lot of democrats are not on board with that jobs bill, by the way. in the meantime, there's a high ranking general. general william shelton, head of the air force space command who is supposed to testify about this new company, light squared, a virginia-based satellite company that was developing a new 4g phone network. the general in his prepared remarks was actually going to say that it might be detrimental to the military. >> doesn't work. >> because the way in which it would affect or have problems with the gps of the military. now, he's saying, this general, that he was pressured to change

those comments, to be more lock and step with what may be the white house or the administration wanted to hear about this particular company. so now we've got yet another thing that's starting to percolate. nobody knows yet who pressured him but he's saying that he was pressured. >> they wanted him to say, yeah, it's a problem but it's solvable. he goes, i don't think it's solvable. they all say that. no. and when they started questioning this guy, this general, they wanted the head of the fcc there because he would be the one that would be pushing back on the general but evidently, he was too busy to show up at the hearing. >> and most disturbing of all of it is not whether or not the technology is good or bad or it's going to supersede the military technology is that someone asked him to change his testimony. >> yeah. >> i thought you were under oath when you give testimony. >> he may have been asked prior to that. did he actually testify? i'm not sure he even ended up testifying. >> i don't believe that he did. >> i'll tell you what i am sure about. james carville is ticked at this administration. he knows politics and married a republican. so he really knows both sides of the issues. he's scared that a republican is going to win election and he's

got a message and he writes this in an editorial for this administration. it is time to panic. we are far past talking points. do not attempt to dumb this down. we cannot stand anymore explanations. have you talked to any democratic senator yet? i have. it's pretty damn clear they are not happy campers. a democrat firing at a democratic president. he must be desperate. that means he can't pick up the phone and get president obama on the phone! >> speaking of firing, james carville also goes on to say that he believes that the president should fire a whole slew of people and basically start over. now, remember, james carville has not been that thrilled for sometime. even though he's on the same side of the fence as the president because remember, back in 2010 after the b.p. oil spill down in his neck of the woods, his home area, here's what he said to the president then. >> just looks like he's not involved in this, man, you got to get down here and take control of this! put somebody in charge of this thing and get this thing moving. we're about to die down here! >> and, you know, that was what

he said then and he went on to say he thinks the american people want to find out what happened to all our money that caused the crash in 2008. he said i know the attorney general is a close friend of yours but his explanations aren't good. fire him, too. demand answers. >> there's a whole growing list. i put together yesterday a list of senators, democratic senators in congress, people who have had enough and said we can't sign on to this new jobs bill. we don't know where the money is coming from and we don't know why you're using it this way. the left is moving further and further away from obama now. >> senator webb, senator casy. >> on and on and on. there's 12 of them who say this isn't working for us. >> one person that's probably still on his team is his wife michelle obama and she's announcing a new effort, you know, she's behind this whole fitness movement to try to control restaurant portion sizes specifically for kids. i believe it will be unveiled in the next coming months that the olive garden and maybe -- is it the lobster restaurant, too, i think so. that they are going to have a fruit or vegetable on the side for the kids.

and milk option instead of any carbonated beverages. you think that's a good idea or not? >> i'll tell you what, it looks like mcdonald's is great ahead of the trend. great american restaurant. look at the new small fry. is that unbelievable? >> that's not real. >> you might as well individually wrap these french fries. that can't be happening! i mean, even kids would say mom, come on. what are you punishing me? why don't you just ground me like the other kids? what the heck is that? >> is that real? >> actually, ok, now i'm going to -- ok, i'm going to -- >> are you a hand model? >> i need my nails done. this is a medium sized so this is not the real kids size. first of all, my daughter doesn't eat the french fries and my son would only eat this many. you put this in front of them, maybe not such a good idea. i'm just saying. >> i would say this -- >> i also had this thing with getting my money's worth so if you're going to also charge me the same for a small like dunkin donuts did, they go extra small and i'm paying the same money

for it. look at that difference. that's what you get at the american -- >> this is like a shot and a drink. >> yeah. it is -- it looks like a refrigerator magnet. this is -- >> michelle obama says the olive garden should remove the breadsticks from their menu. what's left? i mean, i'm italian. i can say this, right? that's about all they got going for them. >> you know what? i don't know if being italian allows you to talk about olive garden. >> i think it does! >> i'm not really sure. >> it might. >> let's go back to politics for a minute. coming up next on the rundown, house speaker john boehner laying out his own plan to create jobs. what did other republicans think about his plan? congressman tom price joins us next. >> then apparently gtl is expeive. how the jersey shore crew is costing you the taxpayer big money.

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>> a week after president obama laid out a $447 billion jobs plan, house speaker john boehner revealed his fears about the unemployment situation here in america. >> i can tell you the american people, private sector job creators, they're rattled by what they've seen out of this town over the last few years. and my worry is that the american job creators is that all the uncertainty is turning to -- is turning to fear. and that this toxic environment for job creation may be a permanent one. job creators in america, basically, are on strike. >> and boehner wants to say here's my plan, the republican plan for going forward on a jobs emergency plan. joining us right now with his reaction, house republican policy committee chairman tom price. >> hi, brian.

>> we've heard the esident's plan and heard him twice talk about it and finally release it. what's different about what you're offering? >> well, what we're offering is the kind of certainty that the market needs. i think the speaker was absolutely right. when you talk to job creators large and small across this country, they say we don't know what the rules are going to be. we don't know what our taxes are going to be, how high the energy taxes are going to be, what the effect of the health care tax is. the regulations that are coming on board. the more spending that the federal government is going to do. what are they going to do with our competition? they say we can't, we can't hire right now, there's just too much uncertainty so we got to just pull back and tell washington to stop the madness. >> now, you're saying that what john boehner is saying, forget about tax increases. not going to do any type of revenue increases. that's off the table. right away, you're saying to the president, give me an a la carte jobs bill, you're not going to do the whole thing even though the president has not picked up the phone and talked directly to the republican leadership. >> no, look, to believe that the president's program would succeed, one, you'd have to

believe that his first one succeeded and you'd have to believe that taxes aren't high enough, that we don't have enough regulations and washington isn't spending enough. all of those things are flawed. so as the speaker said, look, in order for job creators to create jobs, they have to have some certainty out there in the market and they have to know that the rules of the game aren't going to change in the middle of the process and that's not happening right now which is why we're coming forward this fall in the house and passing a -- a repeal of certain regulations, each and every week. this week, it was the national labor relationsoard bill that we passed a repeal of so that boeing could actually put their manufacturing facility where they want to put it and not where the government wants it. >> as an american, i was personally disturbed that the president has not spoken yet because we're in an emergency situation and name a couple of things where there's common ground. i hear you're for the payroll tax decrease and continuing that. >> i don't think that's necessarily a wise idea. you'd still have to have the social security funds be paid to

the beneficiaries and remember, that's what the payroll tax goes to. there are a couple of things that the president said that do make some sense. one, hiring of vets. the men and women who are coming back here and have put their lives on the line for us, they need -- we need to have special incentives to be able to hire those individuals into the work force. secondly, the infrastructure spending that the president talks about, it's all a good idea. we know that the roads -- many of the roads are crumbling and the bridges and the water and sewer infrastructure. that has to be fixed but it ought to be fixed within the context of a regular budgetary process. we ought not be borrowing money from china to fix our roads. >> right. ok. congressman tom price, just touching the surface. thanks for doing so. thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, brian. >> ok. up next, we change gears. the 14-year-old girl that took the most popular sports game to task saying where are the girls? yeah, the girls. and she got an answer you won't believe. then while cell phones,

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>> news by the numbers now. first 97,676 dollars, that's how much casey anthony will have to pay to cover the investigation into her daughter's disappearance. prosecutors are seeking more than five times that amount. next, $420,000, that's how much the jersey shore is costing taxpayers in the garden state. it's all part of a tax credit that covers production costs for the first season. governor christie, get o that and finally, $49,000, that's how much -- that's how much money became dog chow when this puppy

ate his owner's inheritance check. oh, my goodness. the bank now reissuing those checks. we're waiting to get the remnants if you know what i'm saying. >> our next guest loves playing hockey on and off the ice but recently, 14-year-old lexi peters was playing an nhl video game when she wondered why there were no players that looked like her. but her curiousity didn't end there. >> that's when lexi decided to write a letter to the video game company asked why there were no female characters but now there are. after receiving the letter. e. a. sports reversed course and added a character using lexi's likeness. >> joining us now, the new star of the game, lexi peters. good morning to you. >> hey, lexi! >> good morning. >> oh, my gosh. are you sick? you don't look too excited to be up bright and early. >> yeah. i'm fine. i just had a cough. >> ok. all right. you took it upon yourself to write a letter because you were playing this game and you're

like look, i don't see any females playing hockey. hockey has become so popular with girls and young women. did you ever think you'd get a response, much less be featured in this video game? >> no, not really. i just thought that it really wouldn't go anywhere. >> lexi, tell us. i go on the video game and i can choose my player and i can choose you as one of my players. i could be you on the ice? >> yeah. >> how does it work? >> you have to go to create a player and you can create your own player and then you can put it on a team and you can make your team also and then play any team you want. >> so lexi, i'm lexi now, right? i'm skating around. i can check someone into the boards. can i check -- can i do an illegal check on this guy right into the boards, slam him right into the glass? >> yeah, you can!

>> is that what you would do? >> yeah. >> so i'd love to go back and figure out about how this whole letter thing worked because it really shows that one person can make a difference in a positive way because you felt kind of left out and you wanted women to be represented and you wrote the letter. i understand at first you didn't get a response, right? >> yeah, i didn't get a response for a while. and then we got something in the mail. and it said that they couldn't do it. and then we got a response. >> lexi, do you get paid? >> just a little. not much. >> hopefully it will be enough to put away to some sort of a college fund. unless you get a hockey scholarship somewhere for college, right? >> yeah. probably not. >> lexi, wait, before we go, do you play on the boys team or all girls hockey team? >> i play in an all girls team.

>> it's very popular now, eric. lots of girls teams and in fact, even on little league, right, girls are playing with the boys or by themselves. thanks for taking the initiative and making a difference. good luck to you. have a good day at school. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> bye, lexi. >> thank you. >> next, houston, we have a problem. russia loses contact with astronauts on the way home from space. should america really hand over our space program to russia? >> and holy guacamole! it's national guacamole day! i'm scared to know that brian is out there. tracy altman is here to demonstrate his own special recipe. ♪

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>> all right. time for your st of the morning in case you didn't know, today is national guacamole day and you are looking there at the folks from holy guacamole who have an interesting way to travel. that's their trailer. they pulled over that colorful guac truck and brought along some wild guacamole dishes and right now, i'm outside with chef tracy altman who is traveling around in that lovely vehicle. >> it's a great wheels, don't you think? >> that flatbed is carrying around that big trailer. the message to people who don't

enough about guacamole is? >> it's good for you and it tastes good. >> it's essentially guacamole and? >> it's avocados and spices. >> quick look at the weather. steve is out today. let's look at the weather that matters most to you out there, and of course, to me. the weather today in massapequa, 65 a high. 51 a low. joey butafuoco, jerry seinfeld, please be aware that's what's happening in this nation. first thing is first. >> you know what? people love spicy, why not mix a wasabi, very spicy with some guacamole instead of your ranch dressing, boring, try this. how about shrimp cocktail? do you like cocktail sauce? >> that's a little too personal. i would say now, i would like cocktail sauce. i will try it. >> it's really good. >> that wasabi is really spicy and gives the shrimp another thing to do. >> the other thing is how about guaca-pops. take some fruit juice and we --

look at how beautiful that is. all this is is fruit juice and a little bit of guacamole so you're adding flavors and nutrients. >> you're running around and the kid wants an ice pop and it's a guac-pop. >> this is our top, av kaocadose fruits and they don't know. put into i into a guacabanana. this is like a banana cream pie. try it. i know you want to. do this at home and don't tell people there's guacamole on this until they eat it. >> the message on this guacamole is? >> try different things. forget ranch dressing and things that aren't healthy for you. put guacamole on them. >> fresh from texas, i love companies that take risk and the company is only 4 years old. >> happy guacamole day! >> same to you. next year i'll get you a gift. >> we'd like to go back to your weather forecast.

i wanted to know if you left anything out. >> here's today's highs if you want to see the rest of the country if you're not going to massapequa, that's what i expect today's highs to look like. take it down. and that's all. back to you, gretch. >> oh, my gosh. i'm so glad that you have more to offer than doing the weather, brian. >> guacamole olives. >> current temperatures. can we see the current temperatures? let's take a look at the current temperatures. we don't have it. sorry. all right. i'm coming inside. bye, tracy. >> bring in some guac. more headlines that you must see out of france this hour. dominique strauss-khan breaking his silence about the sex scandal that had him under house arrest in new york. strauss kahn sitting down for an interview on a french tv show. he'll be interviewed by a journalist who used to work with his wife. he's going to admit to sexual addiction. very interesting. >> the case possibly solved, the teenager tells police in sante

fe, new mexico, that he's a boy who disappeared 11 years ago at the age of 7. the teen's d.n.a. is being tested to see if he is in fact that missing boy. he told police he's been living in a state near new mexico but he's not said who abducted him while walking home from a friend's house. gretch? >> take a look at this, a russian space capsule carrying three astronauts that landed safely in kazakhstan this morning but not without rattling a few nerves first. astronauts who were returning from the international space station reportedly lost contact with mission control for several nerve-racking minutes. one of the astronauts is an american who had been on the iss for nearly five months. no word on what caused the communications breakdown and just so you know when they're carrying them like that, they do that because they need to get their equilibrium back from being in space. >> those are the guys that will take our astronauts back and forth to the space station. charlie sheen admits he hasn't been doing too much winning recently after getting canned from the hit show "two and a half men."

sheen opened up to jay leno about his meltdown earlier this year. >> i said some things that were a little out there. >> let me ask you -- >> a little bit out there. >> might have just overshot the mark a little bit. >> but these are just metaphors, jay. metaphors, i didn't really believe i had tiger blood or adonnis d.n.a. these were just jokes, you know. >> what was the catalyst? what made you go whoa, hit the wall? >> i realized i was pretty much losing! >> he's got a good sense of humor about it at least. sheen says he and ex-brooke mueller are still friends. he adds that he's now sober and he's no longer angry at the producers of "two and a half men." gretchen? >> america is spending more than ever before on education now, yet, test scores remain flat across this country. now john stossel is telling us

some exciting things are happening in the classrooms. watch this. >> but school is boring! >> no, it's not! >> yes, it is. i know. i went to school. grade school was boring. so was high school. so was princeton. except for the party parts. but fourth grade? you have to learn reading and writing. that's work. >> reading is work! but it's rocking awesome! >> rocking awesome? and these kids say school is fun? >> yes! >> how is it fun to learn? >> it's not actually boring. they just teach us in a fun way. >> so you guys look forward to going to school in the morning? >> yes! >> joining us now is the anchor of "stossel" john stossel. wow, that is impressive. gretchen said wow, i agree with that. wow. >> it's so refreshing and they go to school until 5:00. finally the government monopoly is starting to break a little and there are experiments like this and we look at a bunch of schools. they use different methods.

but to have kids happy to learn math and stuff that few of us liked to do is great! >> don't you think it's kind of a learned trait to suddenly not like it. i think all kids love that whole essence of learning and maybe they learn down the road that it's not so hot or whatever but i love that kid when he said it's rocking awesome. i mean, you must have been so stunned to hear that. >> i was because i paid $20,000 plus to send my kids to one of these fancy private schools. where half the kids were awake and cheerful in fourth grade and alert like these kids. this is one of those at risk populations where they are all typically sullen and indifferent to learning. all these kids were excited about learning. >> what school was this? >> this is one of the harlem success charter schools and, you know, i don't mean to single them out. they have techniques like the teacher wears an ear piece and the master teacher can coach them while they teach. school in california uses very different techniques. outside the government monopoly, you get to experiment and if they want to survive, they know they have to keep attracting

parents so they try harder. >> john, tell us this. these are -- these schools are very difficult to get into. there's a huge demand to get into these schools. >> these are free public schools but because they're good, yeah, there's a lottery now. >> if anybody saw "waiting for superman" that amazing documentary you saw the horror and the families go you through when they don't get in. >> that's right. and i did it first on a show called "stupid in america" at "20/20" and i'm going to redo that this weekend at fox. >> how much does it cost to run a school like that vs. a regular public school? >> they get less money than the regular public schools. >> yep. it's amazing when you look at the cost charts to see what their test scores end up being, then, even though they have less money. before you go, we want to make sure we tell everyone that your special will be on at 10:00 p.m. on saturday. have you ever had a -- >> i don't a guacamole drink. >> have you ever had a guac-tini. brian brought this in. this is a martini with guacamole in it. i'm not sure if it sounds good or not in the morning. if that doesn't do the trick for you, here's a guacamole smoothy. ok? >> cheers.

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>> some quick headlines. first, an update on that deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe. a colorado woman now suing the farm that distributed the fruit claiming it nearly killed her husband. the woman suing wal-mart where she bought the cantaloupe. thau there's a reason why your trip home seems shorter than the trip there. it doesn't have anything to do with the familiarity to the route. a study suggests that they're too optimistic about the trip there making it take longer than expected. >> this solyndra scandal continues and it may be the tip of the iceberg? e-mails released last night showed the obama administration privately worried about the effect of a default by solyndra and it's impact on the president's re-election campaign. fox news legal analyst peter johnson jr. is here with more. in that e-mail, it was between two officials at the office of management and budget. they were concerned that maybe this company would go under. >> it's interesting, you see

some of the spin back now. say well, yeah, they were worried about the politics but they were doing it anyway which means it wasn't politically motivated. it was done for the purpose of innovation. you look at the loan programs in the department of energy and you see, i looked at five of them totally $9 billion. the government says for that $9 billion, they will create 206 permanent jobs investing $9 billion. what senator murkowski calculated yesterday and we calculated was she said $5 million a job. i calculated about $4.7 million a job so we're about $300,000 off. so what they've done is create jobs at the rate of $4.7 million per job. >> yes. but even if that sounds outrageous, the problem is those jobs don't exist anymore because companies like solyndra have gone under so those 1100 jobs that were created are now gone.

>> there's two issues. is this incompetence or is it corruption? there's four different investigations going on. there will be more. the larger question is why are we engaging in this? why are we engaging with our tax dollars in a niche venture capitalism and eric was talking about venture capitalism earlier this morning. is that the government's role? should we be investing in companies that don't have a chance of success when we say that we need shovel ready jobs, that we need immediate jobs, when unemployment is 9.1%. when people are hopeless and when the african-american community numbers are sky-high and the hispanic community numbers are sky-high in some places. and so we say no, we have an obligation to pick out certain industries that need our help. but at the same time, they masquerade as economic development, as job creation, as white house pressure that says we need to have the vice

president there for that ground breaking. we need to have the president there for that ground breaking. >> the one thing that you left out in that very extensive list is the ideology of this administration. how does that play into whether or not these companies got loans? >> i think it's a combination of ideology and pay to play and we'll see whether, in fact, any crimes were committed here. when you say i want to create green jobs and that is the mantra of an administration for the economic future of the united states, and you say i'm going to do that at any cost, even if we don't create jobs, even if there's potential conflict of interest with people who are investing in presidential campaigns, even when we abrogate loan agreements and say the government goes last, on repayment, not first. it stinks. it stinks. >> i think we'll leave it right there. that was a good analysis. peter johnson jr. have a fantastic weekend. >> be well. >> see you next week.

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>> the answer to the trivia question of the day is mickey rourke and the winner is shawn from minnesota. the battle over job creation continues in washington and both republicans and democrats claim they have the solution, just leave it right there, guys, but the next guest, our next guest has a message. he wants washington to get the heck out of the way. applebee's franchise owner is owner of 34 restaurants in the new york metro area. he employs 3,000 workers and he's ready to hire more. zane, thanks for joining us. you're ready to hire more. what do you need to hear out of washington before you do that? >> i need to hear that they're not antagonistic. i need to hear that the environment is changing. it's, you know, the president of the administration came in with all sort of respect and accolades and that just waned and waned. when you lose respect, how do you get it back? >> i've created businesses before, i've been on the board of directors of big companies before and i come out and i say

really government is too involved. they're stifling job growth and people say, bolling, you're a talking head on a tv network that's conservative and it's not. you're a real life business guy, 34 restaurants. it is, you look five, 10 years down the road, don't you? what do you see when you look five or 10 years down the road? can you see that far now? >> no, we certainly can't see that far down the road in our business, per se, because it's shifting all the time. shifting sands. here's what i think i do say, i also sit on several boards. i sit on two new york exchange stock boards and the perception is that washington is antagonistic towards business. wrong, right or indifferent, that's the perception. we have six restaurants in development now. approximately $20 million of cap ex, we're going forward because we see some opportunities in this particular environment

right now, construction costs or less. >> tell us, though, zane, what is it that would be, you know, i interview a lot of business owners that say i'm not going to hire one employee until i need two. i'll hire two when i need five. what is it, is it health care? is it taxes? is it regulatory environments? what is the most anti-business agenda going on right now? >> it's all the above and plus more. i mean, the nlrb is not a small piece of that whole thing. i don't know if you know or not, eric, i just got it yesterday but all nonunion businesses have to post now in their -- in a prominent place, i think it's two feet by two feet signage telling people how they can join a union. i don't know if that's pro business. >> i haven't heard this before. is this a new york area -- >> no, it's national. it's come out from the national labor relations act. and it's got -- we talk about our deficits, you got to print them. they have to enforce it and they're going to -- you're going to get heavy fines if you don't do these postings and it lists all the ways you can go forward. that creates a perception and

that creates an environment, not that i'm anti-union or union, i won't position myself there now but it's not pro business. >> we only have a couple of seconds left. what's the one thing if you could change what they're doing in d.c., what would it be? >> health care. that's the one. >> i'd look at health care. >> listen, we don't make this stuff up. we do this. we spend a lot of time with business owners like you for that reason. you're boots on the ground and telling us exactly that. you would hire more if you didn't have this health care overhang. >> absolutely. it's scary. >> thank you much for joining us. >> thank you. >> coming up, brad pitt's shocking new interview. he says life with jennifer anniston was "pathetic" and the reason why? more shocking. and you've heard, we'll tell about it in a minute and you've heard democrats blaming president bush for today's problems. here's a new one, a democrat blaming president obama for his problems? geraldo rivera on that story at the top of the hour with gretchen.

>> tgif, everyone. it's friday, september 16th. hope you're going to have a fantastic weekend. i'm gretchen carlson. more money, more worries and more white house e-mails as the solyndra scandal continues to grow. why they were concerned about their campaign season instead of taxpayer dollars? we're going to ask geraldo rivera that question coming up in a few. >> you've heard plenty of democrats blaming president bush for today's problems. here's a new one -- a democrat blaming president obama for his problems. we'll tell you whom. >> i would look it up. >> the nfl taking the term contact sport straight to the fans. now demanding full body patdowns for anyone who wants to go into the stadium with a ticket. how do you feel about that? "fox & friends" starts right now. >> this is bret michaels. i have been to bed yet.

i'm running on rock star time and you're hanging with me on "fox & friends." >> he was at eric trump's foundation, he replaced jerry seinfeld and he was unbelievable as an entertainer. he's a great talker, motivational and then, of course, he leads poison. >> right. >> and he's suffered heart surgery -- he's come back from heart surgery and a brain aneurysm and he won celebrity apprentice. >> right. and he's done what eric did, when he travels, he painted himself shirtless on the side of a bus so when you walk into any bret michaels event or eric bolling event, you see a shirtless star painted on the side of the bus. >> i still do it. in the 1890's i did. >> why didn't you tell me about this? i would have shown up at the event. eric is in. in fact for steve today. glad to have you. let's get some headlines to start off your friday. brand new video out of south wales, british rescue crews are working desperately to reach three men trapped inside a flooded coal mine. one miner has died. the men were reportedly working in the mine when a retaining

wall collapsed allowing a flood of water to come rushing in. it's believed the men now trapped about 300 feet under ground. and new video of that cruise ship that went up in flames off the coast of norway. crews now trying to prevent it from going completely under. they're pumping water out of the hull. two crew members were killed. nine others in the hospital including two with serious injuries. a fire broke out in the engine room, apparently, police aren't sure what sparked the fire. several popular birth control pills being recalled this morning because of a packaging error. we've listed the effected drugs right there on your screen. the pills were reportedly packaged in reverse order, an error that could result in pregnancy if you take the pills. pharmacy is trying to contact women who may be affected. brad pitt finally opens up about his very public divorce and marriage from jennifer anniston. he tells "parade" magazine that he wasn't living an interesting life with her. and that his marriage to anniston had something to do with it. some took this as brad telling

jennifer uninteresting. pitt quickly sprung into damage control mode saying his words were misinterpreted. i don't know, i read some of that and the interview was not very nice. not at all. i mean, why go back and talk about your marriage that you had to somebody like five, six years ago? it just -- i really thought it was -- >> i have no comment about that. >> i read your book and i know all about it! >> very uninteresting. >> one thing about you, you're an action star. rob lowe -- rob lowe, did i say that? what am i saying? >> i don't know. >> who are we just talking about? >> brad pitt. >> brad pitt, i was saying rob lowe. he talked about -- >> rob lowe and brad pitt, that's an interesting -- >> very interesting. >> but brad pitt just sat on the couch getting high. that was never you, geraldo. or was it? >> never -- with all of the child support to pay, i couldn't sit around. >> at all! >> yeh. >> you were a busy guy. >> ok. good answer, geraldo. >> nice damage control. let's get on to solyndra because

speaking of damage control, the white house maybe -- >> they should have sat around and getting high. it would have helped. >> now it looks like there are more e-mails coming out, geraldo from the white house, from the office of management and budget saying maybe they knew that this company was going to go under. what are your thoughts about this whole thing? >> right, first of all, i'm not as certain as eric that there's a real rot of legal problems here but certainly, it shows what happens when people are spending money they don't earn. and that's the problem with government programs generally speaking. you have a situation where under ordinary circumstances this half a billion dollars or $535 million loan would never have been made without proper collateral or a business plan that seemed to have a chance. >> if that's a fact, how about this, the nrpg department was told by a federal watchdog group they have not developed any controls to manage the money that they're handing out. so literally, they throw the money out and they go i really have no idea how to follow up on this, it's not my job. >> what's interesting is you point to a flaw within the department of energy and their

lack of controls for this stimulus money they had. they just wanted to get it out the door in a hurry. that's what i mean. there's not the same kind of prudent decision making that there is when it's your money. whether or not it's a crime committed by the solyndra people, i think that will be clear with the investigation. >> talk about that a little bit. you're an investor and you know the stock market inside and out. if there was, this george kaiser, founder of the foundation who used this other vehicle, argonaut to purchase shares, and then this loan comes along and this just so happens to be a big bundler for obama, it certainly smells bad. is it illegal? >> to me, that's the way government does business. who's connected is the one that gets the deal. what's more interesting is whether or not when it's clear the company was going under, whether the taxpayers got rescrewed in terms of, you know, juggling of who got priority in terms of the limited assets, the limited cash the company had

left and that, i think, will be -- if there's a criminal nexus, it would be there. >> we were hoping to get its economy off its back. instead, we saw the president push his al gore agenda. this is how bad it is. >> i don't mind about agendas. i mean, i think green energy and clean energy is definitely the way you have to go. brian, but the problem is -- >> stop, sir. what do you mean the way you have to go? >> in our society. if you don't think that all these floods and everything else represents global climate change. >> i don't. >> you don't think there's something going on there. and, you know, smog in beijing is smog everywhere. >> that's fine. let the private businesses take those chances. that's what venture capital is all about. >> they'll never take the chance. >> it should be -- >> they'll never take the chance. it's so risky. innovation is always risky. what happened with solyndra is. what will happen i'm afraid with a lot of these green energy products, the chinese do it cheaper. they don't have -- >> but it's in the middle of a recession maybe americans don't want their tax dollars being used in this way.

>> that's a political question and i think it's an excellent one. >> let me -->> i asked it five minutes ago. >> she frames it so much more eloquently. >> no kidding! >> thank you. >> it's the grace that you lack and i noticed all those people, talking about joey butafuoco. >> let's look at the whouite hoe e-mail much the optics of a solyndra default will be bad. the timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up. this is my exact point, geraldo. that i worry that ideology was at the top of the list here and not every single hard earned dollar that good americans are paying into their government, we're talking about $536 million and only one company, now we're seeing other companies that have also gone under that got stimulus. >> but that e-mail interestingly enough, gretchen, is absolutely spot on. the optics were horrible! the optics are horrible. that was one of the few insightful government statements on the whole scandal. they -- it is coming right in

the midst of the 2012 election campaign heats up, it looks like the government was so hasty and prude imprudent and reckless with our money. >> optics are bad because it's a terrible investment. >> i agree. listen, with government giving away money they don't earn, there's a disconnect. it's not like you spending your money where you say it took me a lot of time to earn this money, i'm going to try my best to budget my time. this is someone else's money. hey, give it up. give it up. give it up here. give it to george kaiser, our friend. give it to california. they vote for democrats. give it here. give it there. that's the problem, i think, that's where i believe this will definitely hurt the president's attempt to get his jobs bill passed, this will be the example that will be used over and over again. >> what am i holding up? >> your fingers, nine of them. >> nine, the ninth district in w york. one out of every three -- >> he's trying to make his

statements, though, very clear. >> really? i'm trying to get it -- >> frame it with -- >> i need one person, anyone, even in the break to say good point, brian and if it happens today, get your fingers crossed. >> nice fingers, brian. >> that's all i got. three democrats for every one republican. why did turner win because david weprin who lost thinks he knows why he lost. >> don't mess with the jews. that's what happened here and if you try and frame it any other way, you're missing the boat. what happened is president obama has been equivocal in the minds of many pro israeli supporters in his support of israel. he has tried to be king solomon. he's trying to slice the baby, the 1967 borders, the palestinian statehood vote coming up in the united nations in a week or so. the president is extremely criticized by the jewish community and this is the first manifestation of what i believe is a real peril politically speaking for the president along with latinos, he's now trying to address the latino issue. >> you don't think it had to do

with any of his economic policies? the guy that lost -- it might be a combination. >> it might. who knows? >> david weprin who lost actually blamed president obama and he's in the same party. the election turned into a referendum of the president, he says, and i was an unfortunate consequence. if this election happened when the president's poll results were better, i could have turned this around. >> this lost was first of all the worst candidate you could have had. he couldn't campaign and he's an orthodox jew and he loses to a catholic in an all jewish or predominantly jewish district. >> for 88 years, you could have stood up and said nothing and won. >> here's the key. when they asked the voters and there were 60,000 of them. very low turnout. when they asked them how important the issue of israel was and how they gave president obama's approval rating on his -- on the issue of israel, it was 70 something to 20 something. he got 22% approval and those people voted against him and this is the one district in the country where this was the predominant theme. there's another one.

>> florida. debbie wasserman schultz in south florida will run up against the same thing. does she lose and not only does she lose -- >> she wins but the president could lose. the president could lose the sunshine state. >> what am i doing now? what am i doing? >> what am i doing? what am i doing? i'm -- >> i'm loving this show! >> i am patting down this woman who might have a gun. that's what's going to be happening at nfl games across the country because there's so much violence in the stands. >> volunteers? volunteers? >> it's -- yeah, listen, they sued the nfl in chicago, in seattle, in tampa, it went up to the three judge panel. they have been absolutely -- and the issue is always the fourth amendment, unreasonable search and seizure. the courts have always ruled in favor of the nfl in tampa, they had a lower court adverse ruling but the three judge panel reversed it. the nfl slam dunk has the right to search you from the top of your head to the bottom of your

seat and the fact that this guy from south carolina brought this taser in and that the marine who was on this case because he didn't stand for the national anthem in the dallas-giants game just recently, that's going to make them more freaked out than ever. and all this other security. >> that means ticket prices are going up. they'll have to get the metal detectors. they'll have to get the wands and extra people. >> it's not the metal detectors. it's the full body search. it's like the airport. it's going to be like the airport. >> couple of bozos ruin it for everybody. >> you know, drinking and historically you had those fans getting beaten up on the west coast. there's a lot going on. >> can't bring a kid to the cheaper seats in an nfl game. it is so raufrnchy, it is unbelievable. if you can't take out a small business loan and go to a game, you're better off just watching it at a sports bar. that's where to bring your children. >> sports bars -- >> ok. >> brian, you're fired! >> that was very astute, brian. >> finally! i got a comment.

>> you know what? i'm going to leave on a high. >> oh, no. >> you realize this is going to create -- now actually people are going to think you're really mad. >> he is. he is. >> this is so crazy. >> we don't respect him. >> geraldo, we want to promote your show. it will be on the weekend at 10:00 p.m. eastern time and you can follow geraldo even on , ma. >> all right. next on the rundown, president obama says his plan will create jobs but house speaker boehner doesn't agree. but where is the republican jobs plan? our political panel ready to fight this one out. >> and a father and son on a fishing trip didn't catch any fish. instead, they reeled in a baby deer? what? [ male announcer ] in blind taste tests, even ragu uss chose prego. prego?! but i've been buying ragu for years.

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>> welcome back, everyone. house speaker john boehner dismissing president obama's jobs plan now saying it doesn't give the private sector any confidence. >> they've been unslammed by uncertainty from the constant threat of new taxes, out of control spending and unnecessary regulation from a government that's always micromanaging, meddling and manipulating. >> so can they come together to help americans? let's ask our political panel, liberal radio talk show host leslie marshall is here, "new york post" columnist jennifer gould kyle and republican strategist noelle. it's all females today. so great to see all of you. leslie, since you came all the way from california, let me start with you down there at the end. >> good morning. >> i have a feeling that you'll say obama's plan is a good one and what boehner said is wrong and boehner should be compromising. >> absolutely. one thing i have to say out of all the republicans, i have to give him this props. if anybody were able to compromise, it would be boehner and honestly, i think he needs more backbone with his party and

has to decide is he going to work with the american public and the democrats or is he going to bow down to the tea party faction of the g.o.p.? the thing that really irks me on this is i am waiting, as an american who happens to be a democrat for a jobs bill for the republicans, for a jobs bill, a specific comprehensive jobs bill from mr. boehner and i'm not seeing that. it's easy to say this is what won't work but what will work and we are hearing from economists across the board, even people who worked in the reagan administration, and george h. bush's administration who say look, if you look at 2008 until now, we don't have a huge increase in regulations. so there's no reason they should even be bringing that up. >> let me go over to noelle, then, she's the republican on the panel. how would you respond to that? >> obamanomics and reaganomics are very different. obama has not created jobs. the way it works it's a same line and put in a different

bottle. >> you mean with more spending? >> absolutely. it's more and more of the same stuff. it's the private sector that's creating the jobs. >> i want you to listen to the president and how many times he said pass the bill. watch. this >> you should pass it! and i intend to take that message to every corner of this country. pass this bill! pass this bill! pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill now. >> let's tell congress, pass this bill. pass this bill. pass this bill. that is this bill. pass this bill. that is this bill. -- pass this bill. >> is that effective with the american people? >> absolutely not. that's extraordinary. he didn't once say read this bill, let's talk about this bill. republicans, what do you think about this bill? there's nothing. pass this bill? he tried that before, it didn't work. we have a lot of problems. we have an american public that's getting increasingly frustrated and incredibly upset with nonsense. there's absolutely nothing behind "pass this bill" and we have republicans who are saying, look, your plan doesn't work.

we've seen it before. we've had stimulus that don't work. we've had bank sales and the only ones that are richer are the bankers. we have nothing from the republican side either. what we have now is a blockade and we have an impasse. we have two sides that are just making americans so upset. 9.1% unemployment. 428,000 people who became jobless last week. and nothing -- nothing! >> and a 13% approval of congress by the american people. i want you to stick around, panel, because up next, the media was all over the white house when enron collapsed. so where are they now reporting on the solyndra scandal? we'll be right back.

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this newly released photo shows norweigian mass murderer minutes before he detonated a car bomb outside of the prime minister' office back in july. you may remember he then drove to a youth camp where he went on a mass shooting spree. 77 people were killed in both july 22nd attacks. and it's the end of the era as the last crown royal victoria rolls off the assembly line at a plant in canada. how appropriate. they're continuing the crown vic that has been popular with police departments and taxis for decades. customers turn to cars with better gas mileage and performance like the volt. >> thank you for analysis. is the white house being treated differently by the mainstream media covering the growing solyndra scandal? last decade, president bush faced increased scrutiny during the fallout of the enron case. how is the current president being treated this time around? luckily, we're back with our panel so they can provide you your thoughts on that. let me start with jennifer this time around. do you think there's a difference in the way the

coverage has been or not? >> i think it's been a slow start. it was maybe sloppy and a little lazy. you can't have billions of dollars given out to companies and expect there not to be corruption. so all of a sudden, this has come to our attention. $500 million. now we know there are problems. there are looks to either incompetence or corruption. i think this is the tip of the iceberg and there's a lot more underneath. >> tip of the iceberg for this company or the tip of the iceberg for other loans that were given with taxpayer money? >> other loans. i mean, there is such sloppiness. i think the labor department came out with stats that $19 billion has been mismanaged. i mean, there is so much room for mismanagement and there's no accountability. the problem is these loans are -- the president seems to think that you can throw out loans as a way to stimulate an economy and yet people don't have to pay the loans back. >> uh-huh. leslie, isn't this horrible timing for the president? i mean, he just released his jobs bill. he's asking for almost $500 billion more in stimulus spending. and now won't the american people be scratching their heads

saying, oopsy daisy, some of that money was there the first time around. >> i think the american people are smarter than that, gretchen. quite frankly when you talk about a bill out of the banks that was an american president signed into law. that was agreed ton by both parties, democrats and republicans and the american people didn't want that. what fascinates me, you know, about this is the way i hear it is almost as if we've never had a government left or right invest in a private company ever and that's just not true. we've never had a company go belly up or make investments that are risky. >> you're forgetting the ideology part of this whole equation, though. >> we don't have actual dots that connect. not one congressman left or right has been able to say to any journalist on any network when asked that very question, do you have specific evidence that proves that this is ideologically based and another thing we have to remember is that investors into solyndra, there are many republican and conservative investors

originally that invested in solyndra that also invested in very conservative companies like wal-mart. >> i have on get nicole in here. >> that doesn't matter about who is invested but the part of the problem is obama let this go on his watch and pushed it through. the bush administration denied this loan and said it was bad business so once again, the government has invested in something that's proven not to work. and, you know, we need to get this more out in the media because this is wrong. it's pay to play politics. chicago style politics that obama has been used to and this is wrong. this -- it's an election year and i think that this is the tip of the iceberg. i think not only this company but you're going to see more crazy loans brought out. >> we'll have to wait and see. leslie, jennifer, noelle, good to see all three of you. have a great weekend. coming up, the top general said he was pressured now to change his testimony to favor a company owned by a major democratic donor. will this spell more trouble for the white house? chris wallace is up next with that. and russia loses contact with an american astronaut on the way

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>> all right. we have a special show coming up for everybody on monday. "fox & friends" will be live from the villages in central florida. yes, fox newschannel has been on the air for 15 years. our show is virtually that old. it used to be fox express. we'll look at old clips and celebrate our anniversary. got a huge show. you'll see some old "fox & friends" favorites, some bloopers, surprise anchor will appear out of nowhere that you haven't seen since chuck disappeared on "happy days" plus we're expecting about 10,000 people to show up and it could, in fact, be you. that should be fantastic. and this is foreigner. and that's why we're playing this song. >> is that a hint? >> that's a hint. >> i got it now. >> going to be performing on the show. >> too bad chris wallace won't be there. he's in washington right now. good morning to you, chris. >> i got to say, i love the villages, it looks like a happy

place and arnold palmer and nancy lopez are there. >> every day. and they're playing golf every day together. right at the villages. chris, why wouldn't you make the trip with us? is it your feeling that you wouldn't travel well with "fox & friends"? >> i would travel great with most of the "fox & friends" crew. there's only one person who is keeping me away. >> right and steve is not here today so it's a good thing we're talking about him. >> all right. >> no. guess again and it isn't gretchen either. >> eric, i'm sorry about that. yeah. >> hardly know you, chris. >> all right. let's talk about a new book that's come out, mr. wallace. apparently the book from a wall street, former "wall street journal" reporter says that the white house has been slow on economic decisions and recovery because of too much deliberation. all right, you're there right in the thick of it. what do you make of the book? >> well, yeah, this is a guide and he wrote some tell all books about the bush administration. at least he's fair and balanced and he's now taking on the obama

administration. it hasn't been any secret that there have been real fights within the administration that larry summers who was the president's top economic advisor didn't play well with others, that kristina romer, the head of the council of economic advisors, another advisor felt she was kind of pushed aside. there's a little new stuff in there about tim geithner, the treasury secretary that when there were decisions made about things he didn't like, he kind of dragged his feet. i'm not sure that's the real reason that we're in the trouble we're in. i feel, i didn't write a book, but i feel that the real problem is the fact that this administration, when it had the chance, and had a lot of support for its stimulus program turned it over to nancy pelosi and the democratic chairman and they ended up putting a lot of their pent up special programs in that you can argue are good or bad but obviously not very effective in stimulating the economy. >> not good business. in the book, it talks about here we are in an emergency situation

economically and personalities are getting in the way of policy and larry summers being domineering and the women feeling totally marginalized where they were talked over at meetings and they complained to the president about that. that's kristina romer as well as i imagine valerie jarrett who were trying to get a word or two in and they couldn't do it. also, i find it interesting that robert gibbs and david axelrod were whisked away prematurely before anyone thought because president obama wanted to clean house after the midterms. >> yeah and look at how much better things are now. >> yeah. smooth as glass! >> here's a memo that eric is going to read from pete rous. >> i'll read the memo and i want to ask you something about what you brought up. here's the memo from him. it says "there's a deep dissatisfaction within the economic team with what is perceived as larry's imperilous and heavy handed direction of the economic process." here's what i'm getting at here, chris.

all morning long, we've been talking about the head of the energy department, secretary of the energy failing on all these different loans it made to various energy companies. we talk about tim geithner in the past saying don't worry, america will never, will never lose a triple a credit rating. tim geithner saying don't worry about greece, it will never default. is it in house fighting in the white house or is it just complete incompetence at the top? >> i'm trying to think, gee, you put me in a tough spot here. you know, look, i think that there's a -- i don't think the in house fighting has been the real problem here. i think the problem is the decisions that have been made by this administration and some can argue, you know, that hindsight is always 2020 but they obviously haven't worked. it was kristina romer, one of the women cited in the book, the head of the council of economic advisors and i'm sure that everybody regrets that she did this, everybody in administration who said if you pass this stimulus program, we won't get above 8% growth.

well, we have not been below 9% except for two months out of the last two years. so, you know, i don't think it was in fighting. i think they had a policy and the policy didn't work and a lot of it wasn't just, you know, that they made bad policy decisions. i think they made bad political decisions and i go back to turning that stimulus over to the house democrats, i think, was the original sin of this administration and the republicans were in real disarray in early of 2009. i think with a more balanced package and a more moderate package, they could have gotten some republican buy-in. i don't think it would left us with a lot of job loss. the administration would be better politically and in terms of policy if they followed a different course. i think rahm emanuel, the white house chief of staff at the time who was supposedly the big inside washington political guru, i think he made a lot of the mistakes. >> let's take a look. they have another chance now because this super committee, these meetings are going to be coming up and yesterday, some of the senators held a pep rally for them to basically say hey,

let's get the job done. i mean, they have a short period of time, chris, they have to -- these 12 members of the house and senate have to come up with $1.5 trillion in cuts not to mention the president's jobs bill that flopped on top of that. they have to come up with that before thanksgiving. is it going to happen? >> i think it's going to be awfully hard. you have to add one other thing to the equation, gretchen, that's this trigger. if they don't do that as part of the debt deal, there's automatic triggers including half a trillion dollars in cuts for the pentagon which leon panetta told congress yesterday there would be a disaster for the military security, national security of this country. they're in a very tough spot. again, you know, there's a deal that can be made but both sides have to compromise and at this point, they have very different philosophies, utterly different philosophies by the government as part of the solution or the main problem, i don't know how they get from here to there and as you said, they got less than two months because it has to be scored by the cbo once they get it. they really have about two

months from now they have to come up with legislation so that the cbo can say you know what? this will cut the deficit by over $2 trillion. >> we'll have chris wallace and i think that's enough. you went ahead and booked guests. >> i booked two guests. paul ryan, somebody who will offer some interesting ideas. to get the cutting of the deficit going, we're talking with herman cain, the former head of godfather's pizza. particularly in an economy and he's got this new 9, 9, 9 plan i'll find out what it's about. >> he loves chili's health care. not the restaurant, the country. thank you very much, chris wallace. >> listen, you know, have you ever had a complaint about chili's health care system? >> no, i haven't. not even the restaurant. >> now you have another question

for herman cain. >> thank you very much. >> see you in the villages on munld. >> ok. great. now the rest of the headlines. fox news alert. soldier armed with a gun is on the loose right now in central new york. great. 20-year-old russell markam escaped military custody last night at fort drum. he was being held on burglary charges after escaping, he stole a car sending police on a multicounty car chase. he ditched the car and took off on foot into the woods. he is wearing camouflage. >> and he's in central park? good thing we got the guacamole shoot over. >> central new york. >> oh. >> like a magnet. >> fantastic. all right, last night, the supreme court stopped the execution of a man in texas, the very last minute. his name is duane buck and i think that's him. he was set to be executed for murdering his former girlfriend and her friend 16 years ago but he was waiting in a holding cell right next to the death chamber when he got the word. the news sending tears of joy to many protesters. guess it wasn't them.

outside the huntsville prison. his lawyers claim racially charged testimony from a psychologist led to an unfair sentence. they're asking for a new sentencing trial. >> all right. and russian space capsule carrying three astronauts landed safely in kazakhstan this morning but not without rattling a few nerves. the astronauts who were returning from -- >> chaos. >> it is. the international space station lost contacted with mission control for several minutes. one of the astronauts is an american who had been on the iss for nearly five months. the united states now depending on russia. that's good news to transport our astronauts. gretch? >> they had to have a stretcher there to carry them. >> that's the way they do it in russia. a father-son fishing trip turned into an incredible rescue. they were in the bay when they spotted a big deer in the water struggling to survive. the entire rescue was filmed by cell phones. the father was able to pull the deer from the water. half way through the rescue, the

deer slipped through their hands. they were able to get the deer into the boat and safely to the shoreline. i hope they didn't drop the deer off on that little island. >> i guess so. >> i don't know. >> i want to see how the story ends. i guess it's over now. let's see if we follow it. still ahead on this show -- >> a twist in the search for a missing utah mother when investigators are saying about human remains they found. they didn't really find that. judge jeanine pirro on the case next. >> he's the only person banned for life from mtv but things are looking up for comedian andrew dice clay. he'll join us live to talk about the big comeback. what's coming up on "fox & friends" this weekend? >> smoking in the green room? we're not sure. >> get the censors ready. >> who has the better jobs plan? president obama or speaker boehner? karl rove here to weigh in on that. >> listen un, one of america's favorite cartoon characters is under siege. a surprising new study that says spongebob is actually making your kids dumb!

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system useless. democratic state senator from new jersey introducing a bill on monday that would require governor christie to notify leaders any time he leaves the state. governor christie says he's in constant touch with the lieutenant governor when he travels and he refuses to release his private schedule. brian? >> thanks, eric. strange new twist in the search for susan powell. the utah mom has been missing for two years. authorities are now back tracking on a claim made yesterday and we reported it that they discovered human remains at a remote site in the desert where they could have -- where they thought that she could be. here with more because this case has not been solved, the host of "justice with jeanine" judge jeanine pirro. welcome back. we thought we had a match and the husband is a person of interest but has never been charged. again, nothing. >> this is an outrageous case. december of 2009, the father and husband of susan powell decides

in the middle of the night, in the middle of a blinding snow storm to go camping in the middle of nowhere. he says, oh, when i got home, she vanished. well, why do you think she vanished? first of all, he wouldn't cooperate but then he says, you know, she was promiscuous, she was slutty, she was unstable and then his father comes in and trashes her and says i basically had a sexual relationship with her. she was a promiscuous woman and we have her diaries from college that will prove what a tramp she was. it is a sad commentary on wives who disappear who husbands say they know nothing about them and we're left with them trashing the woman. >> you have to wonder how much in resources they can put to this case. it's been a while. these remains were found 130 miles from where she was last seen and 30 miles from where they were camping. you wonder, the husband and the grandfather, excuse me, and the

father-in-law continue to be free. if you're an investigator, without remains, so far, you have nothing. >> the fact, brian, that they are trying so hard and they've done several searches in the desert area, in mines, two cadaver dogs hit on a scent in this area 30 miles from where he allegedly went camping in the middle of that blinding snow storm. that was recently disturbed suggests that there was something there. but they found no hair, no forensics but they will continue to search. the law enforcement on this case is very determined. and the fact that the father of the victim and the father of the josh powell are getting mutual orders of protection against each other, trashing each other, we've got court orders, protecting her diaries. it's a sad commentary on what's going on between these two families. >> when your wife is missing and you react by insulting them, that gives you a clue maybe, you're perhaps involved.

i can leap to conclusions. you can't because you're a judge. coming up this weekend, we'll see you at what time and where? >> 9:00 saturday night, we have great cases. one of them is that bob ward case guy who is charged with shooting his wife in florida and he said it was suicide. and now -- but he admitted he shot her in a call to police. interesting stuff. >> thanks for the preview. i feel privileged. all right, judge, thanks, have a great weekend. meanwhile, straight ahead, if only andrew dice clay were here. wait a second, he is here! he is up next. and they're arguing about evidently their appearance. see how this turns out. in the meantime, let me put my problems aside and focus on martha. i want to know what's on martha's show. enough about me. >> focus on me, brian. you'll get over all the rest of the things going on down there. all that craziness. thank you very much. brian kilmeade. all right. jim carville says it's time for the president to panic and to start firing people. and democrats are now speaking out against the president's jobs bill. so this isough times for the white house. we're going to talk about that and some others who have decided

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>> comedy made him a huge star in the late 80's but then a bitter divorce and the ups and downs of fame drained him financially. >> now, after stepping away from the spotlight, andrew dice clay making a big comeback in shows like "entourage." >> look, i need somebody that's really going to have my back. >> i have your back! ok? and you'll sign me like that? >> absolutely. i've seen johnny's bananas and i think it's a massive hit. >> i ain't going to pay a dime on bananas. >> why would you? i'm going to get paid on the next thing and the next thing is diceman's big comeback. >> are you a fan?

>> was i a fan? i could recite your whole act while in high school. >> actor andrew dice clay. welcome back. what a journey you've had to get to this point. >> it's been pretty insane. it's been a roller coaster ride as you would say. >> on "entourage" you were actually playing you. >> i was playing me, i had some meetings with the creator of the show and, you know, he said to me, he goes, i just want to blow you through the roof. he was at my last special which was -- my last hbo special which was 15 years ago when he was a struggling comic. when i met with him, he told me all this stuff. >> you were on last season or season before of "celebrity apprentice". did that help the career? >> you know what? for the last decade, i was really bringing up my sons. i wasn't making career moves and about two years ago is when i started making different little moves and, you know, donny's show was, you know, one of the

first things, doing the apprentice. >> right. >> and it was fun. you know, it's a good game show, whatever it is. >> you just called him donny which is fascinating. that's fantastic. appeared ru andrew, does that affect -- >> why would that be? he doesn't like a name like that? >> doesn't matter, you make your own rules. >> man with his own rules. rule number one is there are no rules. >> thank you. >> about your buddies. >> i'm the more emotional one on the couch. >> ok. >> what would it do for your self-esteem? you're the highest, hottest comic in the country until all of a sudden, you're having trouble making ends meet. what does it do to you? >> money comes and money goes. my accomplishments have not been about financial, you know what i mean? i wanted to do something special with my life. and i became the hands down the biggest stand-up ever. i mean, selling more tickets than any comic ever in history and like you said, i went

through a tough divorce and at that time, it was way more important to raise my sons so it wasn't about career moves. >> now it is and you're back on the couch. >> now it is. >> right after this two minute break, i want to hear about that. right back. there'only one bottle left !

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